“This judgment was based on the retrospective work we’ve been making the 2016 U.S. poll and the U.S. intelligence community’s judgment that both RT and Sputnik tried to interfere with the election on account of the Russian government,” the company said.
Twitter established that the two media firms are the only ones that it decided to have tried to interfere with the election. While it has prevented both outlets from running ads, it will allow them to retain their records on the service “in accordance with the Twitter Rules.”
It added that it will donate the funds it has received from RT advertising efforts which it puts at $1.9 million to date to fund a study into the use of its service in civic meeting and elections. The company agreed to share more details on that soon.
To add fuel to the fire, RT’s head of civil media earlier suggested Twitter had helped the media outlet to run publicity around the election.
The microblogging platform has been swept into the matter of how the internet was used to determine the 2016 election, which started out with major problems asked of Facebook after a Director of National Intelligence report in January found proof of a campaign led out of Russia.
Twitter gave information to Congress last month and, following a bipartisan Congressional bill introducing new regulations for online ads, it promised to be more honest over political ads and electioneering with a new system. Not only will administrative ads on the service be labeled accordingly.
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